Platonic Autonomy: Self-determination, Unity, and Cooperation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009520482 ISBN 13 : 9781009520485

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This volume highlights Plato's relevance for the notion of personal autonomy. By offering discussions of self-legislation, self-determination, self-rule, law, preference, and freedom from a wide range of perspectives, it shows how deeply they are intertwined with Plato's more familiar inquiries into knowledge, moral psychology, ethics, politics, and metaphysics. The book also reveals how some of the Platonic worries about self- and other-determination become interpreted and given explicit expression by the Neoplatonists. Many chapters question an exclusively individualistic account of autonomy. The autonomous subject, for Plato, is not primarily the possessor of individual preferences, nor someone with a personally unique take on the world, but, rather, a unified agent who in both collaborative and personal activities originates her own motions and reasons and commits in a profound sense to her own actions. It is this understanding of personal autonomy we label Platonic.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

OLOF PETTERSSON is Associate Professor (docent) in Philosophy at Uppsala University. He has published extensively on Plato and ancient philosophy and also edited several books in this field, including Plato's Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (2017) and Defending a Philosophical Life: Readings of Plato's Apology (2018).

PAULIINA REMES is Professor in Philosophy at Uppsala University. She is also the author of Plotinus' on Self (Cambridge, 2007) and Neoplatonism (2008), and the co-editor, together with Slaveva-Griffin, of the award-winning Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009520482
• ISBN 13: 9781009520485
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Éditeur: Pettersson Olof, Remes Pauliina
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie